Rivers Contrast Riches
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Last published Fri, Sep 20, 2013
In the small town of Riches, located in crater in a post apocalyptic world, Integrity Shepherd lives in poverty as a stiltwalker. Never fitting in, she bends most every rule that separates the Stiltwalkers and the Housedwellers, the community of the rich.
Candor Healer is a boy born into the housdweller community, but has forever been shunned. His brother has always been expected to continue with the family business and be the only doctor in the city.
The two, mortal enemies caught in the wrong social classes, are often caught fighting, so will they be able to put their differences aside to go out past the city of Riches, the only place they have ever known, and find water to bring back and save their people?
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